Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
appear lady
I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
appearing avoid best rate sad-love
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
thinking appearance
Think not I am what I appear.
joy
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined
arrange focus moment themselves thoughtful thoughts wildest
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
bridge flying golden
I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.
among shroud stood thoughts
I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
existence life love
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
book cannot minutes ought
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
thou wisest
Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
beneath hath labor shall sun
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one
soul
That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
age-and-aging crop days few hours minutes months obliged passed remain seconds time trust
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?